Philip Wright

Writer

Philip is a writer for television drama, children’s and digital. He is currently a writer on the Irish continuing-drama Fair City, where he previously held the position of Assistant Story-Editor. Before writing full-time, Pip also worked with both BBC Drama in-house and Lime Pictures – on Casualty and Holby City for BBC1 and Hollyoaks for Channel 4 respectively– in a variety of roles from Researcher to Story Assistant to Assistant Story Editor.

For children’s television, Philip’s writing credits include story-lining and writing 10 episodes of BBC Alba animation Froachy Bay, and also his original children’s animation series The House of Shoogle which he developed for BBC Scotland. Philip’s background started in animation, studying the BA course at Edge Hill University, before being selected by Shed Productions to complete a Masters in Television Fiction Writing at Glasgow Caledonian University, where Philip was mentored by BAFTA-winning writer Donna Franceschild. Philip is now developing several new original television drama series.